Time Life's coffee table book about the 1930s is part of the series This Fabulous Century published in the later part of the 1960s when America was going through some radical changes and re-examining its past. As a Time Life book it contains many pictures, very good and very large. The written content is fairly benign, not so much a history book with analysis as a "remember when" for a popular audience. Still it's not bad and I have seen much worse in this genre. It's a good mix of popular culture media and politics. Most of the big events of the decade are touched upon, some getting more attention than others. Again, the meaning and significance of these people and events is not discussed so it's sort of flat - but the pictures themselves are worthwhile. I would read more from this series if I saw it cheap enough at a used book sale or library. See my "Recommendation" above for a very good book of this type about the 1930s, also published in the 1960s.

--Review by Stephen Balbach, via CoolReading (c) 2008 cc-by-nd ( )